What Happens To Attachments?


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A Question out of complete curiousity.

I wondered what happens to attachments that are uploaded to the forums? Are they deleted monthly / annually? Or kept on a server somewhere forever?

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Just out of interest, are attachments actually deleted when you delete them in the user control panel? I've deleted a few and I've noticed that even though I've deleted the files the files still exist (by pressing refresh, and I also did Ctrl + F5 and the image I deleted still existed. Are they just deleted from the post, but not the server? Or is there a delay between the user deleting the files, and the files actually being deleted?

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Just out of interest, are attachments actually deleted when you delete them in the user control panel? I've deleted a few and I've noticed that even though I've deleted the files the files still exist (by pressing refresh, and I also did Ctrl + F5 and the image I deleted still existed. Are they just deleted from the post, but not the server? Or is there a delay between the user deleting the files, and the files actually being deleted?

Because we have 4 servers, and 2 host the main site, while a 3rd hosts the uploads, I never got around to hooking up the delete function to the function that syncs the upload over to uploads.neowin.net, so they will continue to exist there.

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Because we have 4 servers, and 2 host the main site, while a 3rd hosts the uploads, I never got around to hooking up the delete function to the function that syncs the upload over to uploads.neowin.net, so they will continue to exist there.

Ah I see. Thanks for the info Dave (Y)

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Because we have 4 servers, and 2 host the main site, while a 3rd hosts the uploads, I never got around to hooking up the delete function to the function that syncs the upload over to uploads.neowin.net, so they will continue to exist there.

When do you think this will be fixed?

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When do you think this will be fixed?

Some time in the future when I'm bored I guess. It's not exactly causing any issues, so its not a high priority.

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+1 Thanks for the answers DaveLegg, I need no longer be curious about the Attachments, lol quite sad but useful all the same.

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